A large part of my work over the last few years sits at the intersection between two broad ideas (or labels): “critical legal studies” and “international economic law”. The question behind that probably sounds something like: "what should the CLS of IEL become?" (to borrow a line

... from Roberto Unger) or "what sort of things can we do with what we've learned from CLS as IEL-ers?" It may be too early yet to say I have anything approaching a final answer. But here are some of the ideas I have come up with so far.

NB: for the avoidance of doubt: yes, my attitude towards the CLS project here is totally instrumentalist and reappropriationist; no, this does not mean that I think the study of the critical legal tradition / critical legal thought has no intellectual value otherwise.